Starting out your own video production business can be tough especially if you need to manage your personal finances too. The challenge comes when you know you have to handle the cash needs for both your new business and personal obligations. You have to figure out how you’re supposed to pay all the business and personal bills until your company can support both. Here are some options you can take.

1. Work full-time for someone else and build the video business at night and on weekends.

This means that if your business will primarily be weddings, there are other special events that you can edit after normal business hours. This makes for long days and sleepless nights but it’s a popular approach for people who have a lot of personal financial obligations.

2. Work part-time for someone else to supplement your income and spend the rest of the time building your business.

This will help you build your video production business faster but you won’t make as much money in the meantime. A good friend of mine and fellow video business owner worked for a few years as a waiter at a restaurant before his video business generated enough money for him to quit. He wasn’t thrilled to be working there but it helped him make just enough money to get by. 10 years later, he has a very successful and growing business.

3. Approach a bank about loaning you enough money to start/run the video business and pay your salary for 6 months to a year.

At first, this method sounds crazy. What if you fail? Then you’ll owe all the money back to the bank and won’t really have a way to pay it. But, what if you succeed? Then you’ll easily pay the bank back over time and be on your way to a very successful life as a video business entrepreneur.

I guess you are really the only one who can decide if this is the correct method for you. I can tell you that if you can totally focus on building your business without worrying how you will pay your bills for one year, you’ll have a much better shot of succeeding. Starting and running a new business takes 100% of your time and eliminating distractions (like working another job) will make things a lot easier.

4. Approach an investor and ask them if they’d be interested in financing your start-up.

This is similar to approaching a bank except that an investor will invest their own money into your company in exchange for a percentage of ownership. The amount of ownership depends on how much they invest and what you agree to give them. The upside to this method is that you don’t have to go into debt to start your business and you’ll have the cash needed to operate the business and to pay your salary.

The possible downside to this is that you will not own 100% of your business which means that you’ll have to answer to your investor on a regular basis regarding the business decisions you make. The right partner can help you achieve a level of success you never dreamed of. However, the wrong partner can cause you a lot of headaches and potentially cost you a lot in legal fees.

All this is a lot to process, but the one thing that will be the same regardless of what method you choose is that your video production business will lose money before it makes money. Also, your personal financial obligations won’t go away just because you decide to start a new business. Choose which of the above methods will work best for you and start planning to make it happen.

Ever since the computer age crept into our everyday business and home life web safety has been an issue. Companies around the globe have been affected by this problem and have been forced into setting specific guidelines to combat the problem. Many people love to communicate across the World Wide Web or the Internet as it is most often referred too. With so many personal computers in homes numerous personal email accounts are established in every household. Some people cannot leave the personal account at home. When they get to the office they cannot fight the urge to conduct business and personal communication on the same account. Therefore there can be a breach in safety.

The fact is quite simple that personal email accounts should not be used to transfer business information. Regardless of the natural fact that personal emailing should not be done on company time anyway; using a personal account to transfer sensitive business information can be a serious issue with safety and protocol. As far as technology has come in a relatively short time in reference to computers protection is still a major issue. There are elements out there that are up to know good and work diligently towards gathering useful information about various businesses. This is why certain measures are to be adhered too when emailing is involved. For security and safety purposes strict passwords and encryption methods have to be utilized to protect the businesses and their clients.

If sensitive information is transferred over an insecure server than that information is up for grabs. This can be a very serious problem if the employee happens to be employed by the government. Controls have to be adhered too in order to properly protect all parties. There are many secrets out there that are not meant to be shared rather it be trade secrets or secrets involving national security. If an employee violates these rules of emailing conduct they can put their company, their clients or even the country at risk. This is unacceptable and can lead to serious repercussions. Many people do not think about the potential risk they are placing on their place of business and that is when breaches occur.

The possible effects of internet hacking are a reality. Too many users are led to believe that such efforts are only vivid imaginations presented on the silver screen. It is hard for them to comprehend that without proper protection that passwords can be opened and sensitive information retrieved. Companies and government offices obtain specified computer hardware just for this purpose. They take extraordinary measures to protect valuable information. When an employee passes information along in an insecure method their protective measures become useless. The bottom line is this. Companies are becoming more and more serious about this issue. It is too important to all involved that protection is sustained at all times. There is no excuse for creating an unsafe situation by conducting inappropriate communication through personal email.

One of the biggest hurdles people face when trying to start their information products business is creating their own information products to sell. The prospect of writing a 90 page ebooks can be really intimidating when you are not an expert in a topic. There is a simple way to get over this fear that very few marketers are taking advantage of, which is a shame. That way is creating short reports. In this article I’ll introduce you to some of the benefits of using short reports as a basis for your information marketing business.

1.You can write a short report in a few hours. This means that slaving over a product for weeks at a time won’t be an issue anymore. How long would it take you to write 7-20 pages? If you have a clear niche and outline to start with, you can easily do it in a few hours or less.

2. The low price point means higher conversions. You can sell a 10 page report for $7 pretty easily. The price is so low that you don’t need a fancy sales letter, and you will have higher conversions because there is such a low bar to entry. Many people will buy these products on impulse because it is such a low financial commitment.

3. The supply of topics is endless. You can break down a large topic into many smaller topics to use as the basis for short reports in your information products business. For example, look in a non fiction book and notice the chapters. Each chapter can be a short report. So you can easily make 20 products out of one book! Similarly, look at a sales letters and notice the bullet points. Each one of those can be a short report. Now, think of all of the books and sales letters our there, not to mention various other sources for topics such as magazines. The topic can be very specific since the product is so short, and this results in expanding the number of potential ideas for products far beyond what you’d have for a more substantial product.

4. When other marketers are having success with their product, you can profit from their success by producing a complementary report on a similar topic. If a market has a successful product on link building techniques for example, you can product a short report on actual places where you can get high PR links. Use your imagination and piggyback on the success of others.

5. You can maximize the lifetime value of a customer. If you give your reports a theme, you can position them so that customers feel compelled to buy each report in your series. So you can have a 5 Minute Guide to Traffic, and a 5 Minute Guide to Product Creation, and a 5 Minute Guide to List Building, for example. In order to not feel as if they are missing part of the series, many customers will automatically buy all of the products in the series. This is a sure fire way to get tons of repeat sales for your information products business.